Boredom Quotes

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Boredom is why God invented books.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Yawns are hard to refute.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!